Oral forms of medications include inactive ingredients to help stabilize the drug or aid in its absorption. While these components are usually harmless, nearly all of these pills contain some ...

When you’re picking up over-the-counter drugs or prescription medications, you’re focused on the ingredients that will make you feel better, not the ones that are along for the ride. But those ...

Anyone who has glanced at the back of a bottle of aspirin or a box of allergy tablets has seen it: the “Inactive Ingredients” list. All medications include compounds that help stabilize the drug or ...

Although inactive ingredients enhance a drug product’s physical properties and have been deemed safe, clinical reports documenting adverse reactions caused by excipients have been increasing. 1 In ...

More than 90 percent of the medications that Americans take contain an inactive ingredient that could cause an allergic reaction, a new study suggests. Lactose, peanut oil, gluten and chemical dyes ...

Most approved medications have inactive ingredients that could cause problems for individuals with allergies or intolerances to those ingredients, researchers say. Those problems can add up when ...

Furthering an incipient recognition of excipient effects, scientists based at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and MIT have shown that nearly all pills and capsules contain so-called inactive ingredients ...

The inactive ingredients found in medication, including things like fillers and dyes, may not be as inactive as they seem, according to a new study. Some of these compounds may have an active effect ...

Many of us take prescription medications regularly — from anti-depressants to migraine treatments — and we often assume that what's in them is just whichever ingredients are doing the work. However, a ...

Commonly prescribed oral medications in the U.S. are mostly made up of ingredients that have little to do with the condition being treated, a new study finds. These “inactive” substances, like lactose ...